New release of Tregarde series?

charles krin wrote:
> I happened on a new issue of 'Burning Water' at of all places, WalMart
> the other day...looks like Misty is selling well enough to justify TOR
> in doing a 6th printing of one of my favorites.
>
> ck


They started re-releasing these a couple months ago, with spiffy new
covers to entice the Buffy crowd, now that the nut-jobs have gone away.

She has said, if they sell, there may be a new one
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Kat Hein wrote:

>
> They started re-releasing these a couple months ago, with spiffy new
> covers to entice the Buffy crowd, now that the nut-jobs have gone away.
>
> She has said, if they sell, there may be a new one
>

I knew of the "nut-jobs" in a VERY general way, from Misty's written
statements in various public places. They've gone away? My curiosity
knot is tingling.

Very cool. I really liked that series.

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Rosanne wrote:
> Kat Hein wrote:
>
>
>>They started re-releasing these a couple months ago, with spiffy new
>>covers to entice the Buffy crowd, now that the nut-jobs have gone away.
>>
>>She has said, if they sell, there may be a new one
>>
>
>
> I knew of the "nut-jobs" in a VERY general way, from Misty's written
> statements in various public places. They've gone away? My curiosity
> knot is tingling.
>
> Very cool. I really liked that series.
>


Apparently, the main nut-job got hauled away to jail at some point for
charges related to child pornography. And I guess his followers kinda
dropped off after that.
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The "Buffy crowd"??? I suppose that would include me, although I've been
reading Misty for longer than Buffy's been around.... I'm not sure how
much more enticed I can get

TTFN
Paige


Kat Hein wrote:
> charles krin wrote:
>
>> I happened on a new issue of 'Burning Water' at of all places, WalMart
>> the other day...looks like Misty is selling well enough to justify TOR
>> in doing a 6th printing of one of my favorites.
>>
>> ck
>
>
>
> They started re-releasing these a couple months ago, with spiffy new
> covers to entice the Buffy crowd, now that the nut-jobs have gone away.
>
> She has said, if they sell, there may be a new one
>
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>Kat Hein wrote:
>> They started re-releasing these a couple months ago, with spiffy new
>> covers to entice the Buffy crowd, now that the nut-jobs have gone away.
>>
>> She has said, if they sell, there may be a new one

Paige <ppwalker.RemoveThis@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>The "Buffy crowd"??? I suppose that would include me, although I've been
>reading Misty for longer than Buffy's been around.... I'm not sure how
>much more enticed I can get
>
>TTFN
>Paige

Of course if they entice the 'Buffy crowd', there'll be a lot of Buffistas
reading Jinx High for the first time and complaining about it ripping off
the Buffy episode "The Witch" (my first usenet post about Buffy was to
abml about a certain rather obvious plot resemplance there).
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"William George Ferguson" <wmgfrgsn.DeleteThis@newsguy.com> wrote

> Of course if they entice the 'Buffy crowd', there'll be a lot of Buffistas
> reading Jinx High for the first time and complaining about it ripping off
> the Buffy episode "The Witch" (my first usenet post about Buffy was to
> abml about a certain rather obvious plot resemplance there).

Reminds me of a couple of comments I've seen about the
H2G2 film complaining that Zaphod Beeblebrox was a
caricature of G W Bush... *sigh*

I enjoyed the Tregarde books when I read them (and also
"Sacred Ground", which I think came out around the same
sort of time). I didn't realise they'd gone out of print; I just
thought she wasn't going to write any more of them.

Only ever seen a couple of episodes of Buffy. Am
considering watching it if the local TV ever decides
to re-play it from the start though...
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William George Ferguson wrote:
<snip>
> Of course if they entice the 'Buffy crowd', there'll be a lot of Buffistas
> reading Jinx High for the first time and complaining about it ripping off
> the Buffy episode "The Witch" (my first usenet post about Buffy was to
> abml about a certain rather obvious plot resemplance there).

It never ceases to amaze me how some people assume that because "this is
the first time I've heard it" it must be new. I remember in high school
(early 1990's) kids talking about "that new group, Meatloaf" and wanting
to throttle them. In books they have no excuse. Check the front cover
people!

TTFN
Paige
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Aaron wrote:
> Paige wrote:
>
>> William George Ferguson wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Of course if they entice the 'Buffy crowd', there'll be a lot of
>>> Buffistas
>>> reading Jinx High for the first time and complaining about it ripping
>>> off
>>> the Buffy episode "The Witch" (my first usenet post about Buffy was to
>>> abml about a certain rather obvious plot resemplance there).
>>
>>
>>
>> It never ceases to amaze me how some people assume that because "this
>> is the first time I've heard it" it must be new. I remember in high
>> school (early 1990's) kids talking about "that new group, Meatloaf"
>> and wanting to throttle them. In books they have no excuse. Check the
>> front cover people!
>>
>> TTFN
>> Paige
>
>
> Everything old is new again?
>
> "Hey, look, Paul McCartney was in a group before Wings!"
>
> I had a coworker complain that when Holst wrote The Planets he had
> ripped-off John Williams' Star Wars.
>


Diane Duane takes a lot of flak for "copying" and/or trying to cash in
on the Harry Potter craze. Never mind that she wrote the first Young
Wizard book back when Jo Rowling was still at school. :-/
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In article
<uD0Ye.589$9E2.212@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
katenigma00 RemoveThis @yahoo.com says...
> Aaron wrote:
> > Paige wrote:
> >
> >> William George Ferguson wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>> Of course if they entice the 'Buffy crowd', there'll be a lot of
> >>> Buffistas
> >>> reading Jinx High for the first time and complaining about it ripping
> >>> off
> >>> the Buffy episode "The Witch" (my first usenet post about Buffy was to
> >>> abml about a certain rather obvious plot resemplance there).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It never ceases to amaze me how some people assume that because "this
> >> is the first time I've heard it" it must be new. I remember in high
> >> school (early 1990's) kids talking about "that new group, Meatloaf"
> >> and wanting to throttle them. In books they have no excuse. Check the
> >> front cover people!
> >>
> >> TTFN
> >> Paige
> >
> >
> > Everything old is new again?
> >
> > "Hey, look, Paul McCartney was in a group before Wings!"
> >

She's gotta ticket to ride ....

Now why did that one ( of all the others ) jump into my
head then ? Especially as I much preferred the Sgt Pepper
/ Abbey Road period.


> > I had a coworker complain that when Holst wrote The Planets he had
> > ripped-off John Williams' Star Wars.
> >
>

Hey! Tomita got there first !


>
> Diane Duane takes a lot of flak for "copying" and/or trying to cash in
> on the Harry Potter craze. Never mind that she wrote the first Young
> Wizard book back when Jo Rowling was still at school. :-/
>
>

Actually, I do not think the two series have anything in
common, other than teenage children. Even the magic is a
different style.


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Beldin wrote:


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>
>
>
>>Diane Duane takes a lot of flak for "copying" and/or trying to cash in
>>on the Harry Potter craze. Never mind that she wrote the first Young
>>Wizard book back when Jo Rowling was still at school. :-/
>>
>>
>
>
> Actually, I do not think the two series have anything in
> common, other than teenage children. Even the magic is a
> different style.
>
>

You're right, but children learning to be Wizards, and critics and
reviewers think they're the same.

I will say, I do get annoyed at _Diane Duane's_ attitude , from time to
time. Not about the dumb critics, but about the HP books themselves.
Even though she's never read them, and claims that she can't for
legal/copywright reasons (which I find hard to believe, since isn't
Wizards at War supposed to be the last Young Wizards book?), she feels
that her books are sooooooo superior to HP because her magic system is
all about doing good and saving the world and consequences, etc.

I love the Young Wizard series, but it's nice to read books that
*aren't* so darn PC. I also think Rowling's characters are more
interesting and have more depth to them.

I think anything Diane Duane has to say to the contrary is just Sour
Grapes. Instead, she should be grateful, because the whole HP craze
has really boosted HER sales. Would they have been reissued with pretty
new covers if Fantasy, especially juvenile fantasy, wasn't so huge right
now?

However, she does have a point about the stupid critics
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In stone pixels, diane.duane RemoveThis @gmail.com carved:
>
> Most specifically I had no intention of saying or implying anything
> even slightly specific about the comparative _morality_ of the two
> systems of wizardry -- hence the reference to the slipperiness of the
> topic (especially since at the back of my mind was the thought that
> it's all too easy for "morality" to be read or misread as
> "superiority"). Certainly many of JKR's characters, as I understand
> them at third hand, seem to be as "moral" as any of mine when faced
> with the tough choices: that much data I have. But I _was_ curious
> whether JKR's wizardry was "for" anything: whether the rules governing
> its proper use (I mean, there are schools, there must be rules...) had
> been established as coming from anyplace besides a general sense that
> Good is Nicer than Evil. About that, I knew nothing.
>
The way I understand it, in the HP universe magical training is treared much
like conventional schooling is in our mundane universe. How it is used is up
to each individual, and any prejudices are learned from the parents or
environment, rather than being ingrained in individuals. Thus you can have
more than one type of "evil" - the wizarding government seems bent on
perpetrating it's own brand lately through censorship and planting news
items to its own ends, which could end up being worse than anything
Voldemort plans. I certainly hope that in the last HP book that the
nastiness of government is tied up, or else there _WILL_ be clamor for an
extension to the series.
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diane.duane RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:

> Sheesh, no...my agent and Harcourt will shortly be negotiating the
> contract for books ten, eleven, and twelve. The seeds of three new
> story arcs are buried in _Wizards at War_, and there's an arc to extend
> that started in _The Wizard's Dilemma_ and isn't anything like finished
> yet. No, two arcs, now that I think of it. And then there's another
> arc starting in _A Wizard of Mars_, which goes to the publisher about
> this time next week. So the reports of my series being over are, uh,
> exaggerated. I'm having much too much fun!

Oh, wonderful. My daughter will be thrilled to learn this.

SAMK
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In stone pixels, Megan carved:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:50:13 GMT, "Ohmikeghod"
> <ohmikeghod.DeleteThis@mirthlink.net> scribbled:
>
> <snippage>
>> items to its own ends, which could end up being worse than anything
>> Voldemort plans. I certainly hope that in the last HP book that the
>> nastiness of government is tied up, or else there _WILL_ be clamor
>> for an extension to the series.
>
> Um. Mike. Do you honestly think there is anything, anything at all,
> that Rowling could do in the last book that would result in NO clamor
> for a series extension?
>
> Clamor from bereaved booksellers, at minimum?
>
Actually, I don't. But tying up loose ends and not opening new cans of
worms would go a long way toward the satisfactory end of the series.

So, what does she need to do? Make certain that good triumphs over evil.
Which means Harry's triumph over Voldemort, the eradication of the Death
Eaters and installation of a responsible government and bureaucracies. I'm
not at all certain that all of this can be accomplished in one book,
though...
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